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Milady has a honey do project that I'm way overdue on.

We have an antique oak dining room table, maybe 75 to 100 years old. The casters on the table were built to last 50 years, not 75 or 100. I told SWMBO to just get the same casters and we'll replace them, no problem.

Well, she can't find a match. Today's casters a have a smaller diameter post and don't have roller bearings for the swivel. That means I'll need to pull the old collar out of this antique oak to put in a matching collar for a modern caster. (Do I need to tell you what will happen if I screw up and mar up one of the legs?)

How do you pull an old caster collar out of very hard very antique oak? Or, better yet, anybody know a good source for antique heavy duty table casters?

Karl

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Karl Townsend
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You don't. Not under any circumstances.

You could check the usual suspects like Lee Valley, Restoration Hardware, etc. Or you can find something that's pretty close and then use your metalworking skills to modify it to match the old ones, after all there are only four of them right? Or you can use your metalworking skills to fully restore the existing ones.

Pete C.

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Pete C.

Try Van Dyke's Restorers

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They have several pages of casters, some that are supposed to duplicate the old stuff.

Bill

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Bill Marrs

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that's what I thought.

Well, there are six; but you're right I can build them myself from scratch. I don't dare tell the SO any different cause my reason for every machine purchase has been to be able to build it myself. She's let me buy pretty much whatever I thought I needed for 27 years now.

Karl

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Karl Townsend

On Jun 12, 12:38?pm, "Karl Townsend" That means I'll anybody know a good source for antique heavy duty table casters?

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Bob AZ

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Bob AZ

If it was me, Id tap into it , screw in a long piece of threaded rod say 18ins put a nut on it with a slide hammer piece of steel. Slide hammer it out.

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Ted Frater

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This sounds like one heck of a good idea. Thanks for the tip.

Karl

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Karl Townsend

Ted wrote: (clip) put a nut on it with a slide hammer piece of steel. Slide hammer it out.

Karl wrote: This sounds like one heck of a good idea. Thanks for the tip. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Or slide on a length pipe with a couple of washers, and jack it out with the nut. If it's really stubborn, try a combination of the two (slide hammer and jack-nut) at the same time.

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Leo Lichtman

Never thought of that!! one heck of a better idea.!! The tube dia needs to be larger than the flat on the caster insert.

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Ted Frater

I keep going back to why not just make a sleeve for th' replacement?

Snarl

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snarl

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